Sunday, February 24, 2008

(the drag of days -drafted on MLK day and reflecting back to 12.28.07)

I am living in an overwhelmed state of being with ‘must be done’ defined by an external locus of control.

This blog was undertaken, in part, to determine if I have the desire and capacity to engage in discovery and discourse? To put another way, Do I have the ability to independently think and reason and if so, does it or can it matter to achieving a fulfillment in life? I am attracted to, and want to, understand and contribute to the ideals of an ‘open society’. But am I failing at this for so it seems. Or is it that failing is a fatal flaw in the construct of community engagement and consensus? How can glogal and local citizenship and arts and ideas and family matters and living healthy be made unworkable in the day to day?

I have been distracted in very brief moments by the presentations of Ayaan Hirsialiand Irshad Manji, both impressive young women (CSPAN2). The presentations made me wanted time in my life to read Infidels and the Trouble with Islam, respectively and to feel worthy of discourse with such nimble and noble minds. I was hearing that a missing skill set of our time is as follows: debate, decent, revise, reform.

I was in immediate agreement and pleased to hear the roots of Islam connected to inspire-innovate-create. But the telephone rang and my Diversity Day (MLK) was interrupted/derailed by the external locus of control.

Other distractions that got into my random scribble is about the theme American Angels. A local Peter Gardella (Hamden, CT) with the theme useful spirits in a material world ironically tied to a purchase I made during the holidays to support my imagination and a local artist. It is a large sun made of waste wood from formation of Angel wings for other art pieces. I refer to it as a deconstructed Angel.

I was forwarded an email string on puzzling (and art that inspired: This individuals compelling distraction found a place in the world of advertising. Magical, alluring and uncanny. My reaction was to understand the pictures in the string and inform about their roots. I always seem to want context even after being compelled to different zones by art.

Instinct , the nature of humanness, or peculiar to a personality type: too much to explore now as my day is being stolen by the day job once again. Connecting to that moment go here: Literally Finger Painting way cool in the moment of contact ---this link gives you more info about the artist and it is easier to send along to others...http://guidodaniele.com/

Saturday, February 23, 2008

I was asked, do you remember “Loving You” with the phenomenal high pitched C’s and chirping birds by Minnie Ripperton? And was informed that she also recorded “Walk Down Memory Lane” and died much, much too early in life at 31. The memories recalled which had prompted this inquiry were about spontaneity and discovery and traveling less traveled roads. I did not remember the Ripperton song because the music of that period of my life was controlled by others but I was prompted to its discovery now. And it was immediately special.

Memory and its failures and pleasures was part of the rational for this blog. That very same day the quote 'the fierce urgency of now' was captured in scribble. And the week included distractions of the hear via NPR like happiness research. The biggest distractions however, are the community committments....back to them I go.

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Quotes that got my attention

Albert Einstein said "“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

Response: Finding the crack to let the light come in may be harder than we can anticipate. Try Harder.

Sociologist Barbara Katz Rothman term is “incapacitating knowledge” for the technology enabled avalanche of non-stop information that often makes life seem more complicated and disturbing than it already is.

Response: Find Trusted Curators, Brain Train with exposure to art and consider the value of your own contributions to the avalanche.

Response: Sometime wins are hard to recognize until much time has past so lessen the anxiety with a realistic timeline, too.

Albert Einstein said "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Response: For me, everyday is finding the balance.

Albert Einstein said "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

Response: Silence, Judge within me.

George Elliot ( of whom I wrote my Senior High English paper to the dismay of the teacher expecting T.S. Elliot) It is never too late to be who you might have been.

Victor Frankl (College Sociology 100) What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

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